No, its not because I didn't get that one particular gift I've always wanted. It's just not in the cards, so I don't even worry about it anymore. I will once again remind myself that God will provide if it is in His plan for my life. It's not like it is food, and I'm starving. God will provide me with the skills I need to complete the tasks necessary for His plan to be accomplished. He will provide me with the sustenance I need to live. How difficult is that? No, what I meant is, look at all the death and destruction and heartrending grief that the Asian world has experienced this past week. The children that have been lost and the parents that are sobbing for their lost children. Oh God! It is so awful! I feel their pain, and I suffer with them. Please God be with them and love them and accept their children to your home. Love them and comfort them and be with them always. It is perhaps a harder lesson to learn why God allowed this awful hurt to come upon all of us - again. This is the same question we had a little more than 3 years ago on 9-11. I decided at that time that considering how far away we were getting from God, He allowed this to happen to bring us back to Himself. He wanted to see where we would go. Of course, He knew, but we didn't. We were like chaff in the wind. And not that many of us stuck with God. I can see how this terrible event is just like this all over again. How bad had we gotten again? Way worse than we were then in my opinion. This tragedy has been to this point about 14 times worse than 9-11. And it's not done yet. The people that were chosen this time wore beautiful colored dresses and scarves and shirts. Up til this disaster, these people, to my knowledge, always had smiles on their faces. You always saw the children running off giggling and playing, their mothers close by. The women were always smiling and being pleasant and respectful. What did they do to deserve this? To me, I am reminded of someone else who had an even worse thing happen to Him who didn't deserve it, for the sake of an undeserving public. When did that happen? Does anybody remember? Will we catch on this time? Or will we have to hear the same old platitudes as we did 3 years ago before we say, "Oh yeah..." Will someone still be so insensitive as to not get it this time and require yet another example using another set of innocents to convey the same "incomprehensible" message, or will the next time be us? Do we really want this to continue? You know we don't. I know I can't stand anymore. My heart is breaking! Please, everyone, wake up. Please get it through your heads. Let Jesus into your heart. Don't go another day without Him. Don't wait til the time is up. You never know when it's over til we're gone. People, get ready!